Shimla,
(IANS) At least 10 revellers at a rave party, attended mainly by
foreigners, were detained in the picturesque Manikaran
Valley of Himachal Pradesh, police said Sunday. Superintendent of Police
Ashok Kumar told IANS that blood and urine samples of 10 people were
taken after the raid in Kullu district Saturday.
“We
are awaiting the medical report. Those who test positive would be
arrested (for consuming drugs),” he added. Police suspect there were 300
people at the party held close to Kasol village, 42 km from Kullu town.
Some of the revellers managed to escape. Cigarettes, bottles of alcohol
and tracks of trance music were seized, said a police official.
The
Manikaran Valley, some 275 km from state capital Shimla, is notorious
for poppy cultivation and rave parties. Police officials said poppy,
grown illegally in vast tracts of Kullu, Mandi and Chamba districts,
attracted a large number of backpackers to the higher reaches where some
of them become part of poppy smuggling.
